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Kickstarter loves games. Specifically, the company loves its Games category. As of Aug. 31, users have pledged $50,330,275 to various games on Kickstarter this year. That number is a huge increase from last year's total pledge amount of $3,615,841. A...

Man, if we ever get absolutely torn a new one for saying something stupid, we really want the totally excellent Bill Nye to be the guy who does it. Not because we want to upset Mr. Nye, a personal hero (and, yes, brain-crush) who ran the best childre...

Anyone that has spent a considerable amount of time playing Final Fantasy titles likely knows that the numbering of the franchise was jumbled outside of Japan during the NES and SNES days. This is mostly due to the fact that they skipped from Final F...

A scientist from the Indiana University School of Medicine has been awarded a grant from the U.S. Army to design a nasal spray designed to suppress thoughts of suicide. Unfortunately, it makes perfect sense that the military would be looking into alt...

The Game of Thrones franchise has become quite popular. It even has its own dedicated board game from Fantasy Flight Games that is both ridiculously complicated and utterly fascinating. Fantasy Flight's offering isn't good enough for everyone, though...

Researchers found that children ages 9-10 who spend 75% of their time engaging in sedentary activities, such as watching TV or using a computer, are up to nine times more likely to exhibit poor motor coordination than more active children in the same...

It's that time of the year when people who have say over such things get to decide when words we've been using for ages become real, legitimate dictionary words. The list of words will be included in the 2012 update of the Merriam-Webste's Collegiate...

You know everything there is to know about Mr. Minxie-Bums, right? You know just the way he likes his belly rubbed, when he wants his supper, and you know at what time he likes to go outside every night. But do you know what he does when he's out whe...

There's a particular phenomenon popularized on the Internet wherein users who consider themselves early adopters look down on those who were late to the party. Now, thanks to idego.co, you can figure out exactly how much cooler you are than everyone ...

The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled yesterday that a site that embeds copyrighted videos from another site is not committing copyright infringement. Flava Works, Inc. v. Gunter came to a close after the ruling was passed in favor of the defend...

Curiosity, NASA's most advanced planetary rover, will land on Mars at 1:31 a.m. EDT on Aug. 6. And if you're in New York City, you can watch it happen live in Times Square. NASA TV will broadcast the landing on the Toshiba Vision screen starting at 1...

Greenland’s huge sheet of ice always experiences some surface melt during the summer. Not all the way, mind; about 50 percent of the surface sees some melting naturally. This melting refreezes almost immediately or is lost to the ocean and is normal....

This picture was uploaded anonymously Monday on 4chan, proclaiming, "This is the lettuce you eat at Burger King." These Burger King employees might be good at balancing themselves on buckets of vegetation, but they're not very good at removing Exif d...

Mobile Music Touch is a novel treatment for people who have lost sensation in their hands from a spinal cord injury. Not only does it have therapeutic benefits, but it also teaches people to play the piano in the process. Developed by Tanya Markow at...

Iran has been under economic sanctions from the United States for years. This includes complex computer products like, say, the entire line of devices from Apple. But it looks like Iran didn't get the memo, as there are an estimated 100 stores sell A...

In what continues to be a bad year, Research In Motion has now been ordered by a California jury to part with $147,200,000 due to patent litigation with Mformation Technologies. You see, back in 2008, RIM was sued by Mformation for infringing on the...

When it comes to dynamic duos, Batman and Robin are obviously a classic, but Walt and Jesse are definitely up there. With the upcoming release of The Dark Night Rises and the new season of Breaking Bad, it might be hard to decide where to place your ...

There are stories and folktales of weird sounds associated with the beautiful, mindbending spectacle of the Northern Lights for quite some time. Until now, no scientific basis for any auditory component was connected to the Aurora Borealis. But new r...

The thing to do, apparently, when you're bored at work is to just start stealing -- that always leads to excitement. Between April and May, that's allegedly what Todd Anthony Cofield, Jr. did while working at an Amazon distribution center in South Ca...

The dream of having electric cars without limited range is one step closer to reality thanks to a Japanese research group. The researchers, from Toyohashi University of Technology, showcased an experiment with the ability to send up to 60 watts throu...

A man in Finland claims that his iPhone 4s caught on fire in his pocket, and security footage caught the whole event on camera. However, it's unclear if the device in question actually is an iPhone 4s, or if it exploded of its own accord for that mat...

Apparently, prison can be pretty boring. That's on top of it being, well, prison. Plus you've got all that potential labor just sitting around doing nothing terribly productive. Why not utilize it? That's what Santa Rita do Sapucai prison in Brazil i...

If you’ve ever wanted to text someone or play a game of Angry Birds but thought, “then I’d have to reach in my jeans and pull my phone out and that just isn’t worth it to me,” then I’ve got news for you, friend. Your pocket-related trials and tribula...

The Earth's weather system is extremely complex, but it's only a piece of the larger interaction between our sun and its orbiting planets. But it only takes four minutes and 26 seconds for NASA's Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC) to demons...

We've been "living in the future" for a little while now with semi-affordable electric cars and computers that fit into our pockets, but we don't have all of our problems licked. However, a new charging station for the all-electric Nissan Leaf does g...

Historically, pollsters have tried to gauge the effect of racism in political campaigns through traditional polls. But a new study uses Google to tease out a greater level of accuracy that polls could never achieve. The biggest issue with using polls...

Cartoonist Adam Koford, otherwise known as Ape Lad, is a story artist at Disney Interactive. But he also takes his cartoonist talent and freelances like a rogue illustrator, running from various forms of illustrator prohibition, leaving behind impres...

According to a new contract announced last Wednesday, the U.S. Navy will use Linux as the foundation for its drone fleet. The endeavor will cost about $34 million for the entire fleet of MQ-8B Firescouts. Defence Professionals reports that the no-com...

We denizens of the Internet are no stranger to the wonders of bacon. In fact, bacon proliferates across the web in a variety of ways. But perhaps none embody “Internet” and “bacon” like those folks at Epic Meal Time. They have a habit of putting baco...

Everyone knows that sci-fi movies are going to fudge their science a bit, otherwise they wouldn’t be sci-fi. That said, some fudges are just mistakes and they can be glaring if you know your stuff. Acclaimed astrophysicist and meme Neil deGrasse Tyso...

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There is now a second YouTube video of an Oreo separator on the Internet. This is apparently a thing now, and you know what? That's fine. These videos are surprisingly cool for a thinly veiled marketing campaign. It might be because they combine a lo...

The news that Google is shutting down Google Reader on July 1 of this year shook the Internet to its core this week. For many, it is the go-to feed aggregator that made looking deep into the heart of the online world possible from one window, and the...

The NCAA March Madness tournament starts today, but the real action is in public radio feuds. Radio station 89.3 KPCC has 32 NPR shows going head-to-head in an NCAA-style tournament bracket. The smart money is on Bullseye to take the whole thing agai...

With the release of BioShock: Infinite and its impressive reviews, there's never been a better time to rustle up odds and ends from the franchise. Case in point: A ridiculously rare functional BioShock audio diary is currently up for grabs. The eBay ...

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